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Mr Devereux announced to journalists<br />
that the VF Commodore would not be the<br />
last of the line, with an all-new model –<br />
dubbed ‘VJ’ – already under development<br />
at Holden’s Melbourne design and<br />
engineering centre.<br />
Many pundits had speculated that the<br />
VF Commodore – a major reworking of<br />
the current VE Commodore – would be<br />
killed off from the end of 2016.<br />
In the meantime, the VF will carry<br />
Holden’s hopes of reinvigorating<br />
Australia’s large-car segment and<br />
reversing its own sliding market share<br />
from June.<br />
Holden would have preferred not to<br />
have revealed the new model this far in<br />
advance of the showroom release, but its<br />
hand was forced by its American cousin<br />
Chevrolet and former Holden boss<br />
Mark Reuss – now GM North America<br />
president – who were adamant they<br />
wanted to preview the car in time for the<br />
NASCAR racing season.<br />
To minimise the impact on sales of<br />
the current VE Commodore, Holden<br />
has withheld pricing and critical<br />
product details such as powertrains,<br />
performance figures, full<br />
specifications or fuel economy<br />
figures, but we can tell you that<br />
the VF gets a raft of high-tech<br />
gadgets and safety features<br />
that until recently were only<br />
available on high-end luxury<br />
cars.<br />
All Commodores will get an<br />
anti-collision warning system that<br />
uses a camera mounted behind the<br />
windscreen to detect imminent danger,<br />
while at least some VFs will get an auto<br />
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